The nook is apparently quite excellent, but I don't believe you can buy it
in this country.
On 13 September 2010 00:07, Stuart Sears <stuart@???> wrote:
> On 12/09/10 22:24, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > I would be interested in peoples thoughts on ereaders.
> >
> > Ever since I first read about eink displays, I have been fascinated.
> > Recently, the price has dropped to a point where I am seriously
> > tempted, but I have a problem.
> >
> > The two that interest me the most are the Kindle from Amazon, and the
> > new Sony PRS-350 due out soon. They both have the ability to display
> > PDF's but only the Sony will work with industry standard ePub format,
> > avoiding the lock in to Amazon with the Kindle.
>
> I'll let you know how that goes, my kindle arrives this week :)
> it is a little daft that it doesn't support epub, but it does read MOBI
> and I'll convert to that for non-amazon books, I expect.
>
> Or plain old txt, I suppose.
>
> > After all that, the short question is, does anybody use an ereader and
> > if so, who have you got on using it with Linux?
>
> FBReader on my HTC android phone, like Jan.
>
> > P.S. I already know about Calibre :-)
>
> well, there you go, then :)
>
> Stuart
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